Learn how to coach beyond the team

As an Agile Coach, a ScrumMaster, Consultant, or Leader in your organization, your job includes helping people work more effectively. Sometimes that means directly helping individuals and teams. But often, your work involves solving problems—and engaging other people to solve problems— people beyond your team.

You may have no authority to insist those people listen or do, yet managers and executives expect organization-wide results from your activities.

Many executives see clearly how teams should change, but don’t see how the environment or their own actions impact teams. Handing those executives an impediment list isn’t a winning strategy.

In our Coaching Beyond the Team workshop, you will learn the arc of a helping relationship – Center-Enter-Turn. You’ll discover ways to establish credibility and rapport to influence and coach beyond the team. You’ll learn how to use a range of diagramming and thinking techniques to create understanding, and share data in a way that enables others to engage and take action.

Course Objectives

Through simulations and small group activities we’ll explore common organizational patterns and dynamics. Through discussion and practice, you’ll learn tools that will help you communicate the changes needed to unleash productivity.

You will learn:

How to Center yourself, Enter the system, and Turn the system towards better fit for function

How to see the visible and invisible structures in the organization which sustain the current pattern.

How problems extend into the organization.

How to discover and show factors that affect the situation, and how they influence each other.

How to choose which actions to take first.

Benefits of the Workshop

The workshop’s design and content will take your skills to the next level. You’ll learn techniques for understanding the real problem. New analysis tools will reveal the real company, which bears little resemblance to the chart hanging on the wall. Experiential exercises will make this part of your coaching DNA.

What People Say

Concepts & Tools

* So many tools to use!
* Ways to influence/work with people
* Not about Agile or Scrum 🙂

Valerie Morris - Agile Coach/Sr Program Mgr

Multi-faceted

Sometimes (most times) the problems we face are multi-faceted and complex. The workshop gives tools to pause & observe, analyze the system & determine what experiments you want to take.

Lynn Woody - IT Release Manager

John Deere

No powerpoint. Just engagement and collaboration.

Dave Cornelius - Value Delivery Leader

Bio-Rad Labs

Pure gold!

Paul Sutton - Agile Coach

@FragileAgile

Assist effecting change

The workshop offers a framework and process to assist with effecting change – in small groups, one-on-one, and at an organizational level – in an experiential and thought provoking way.

Faye Thompson - Agile Coach

Cardinal Solutions

Fireside Chat

Powerful / Pragmatic / Contemplation / Experiential Learning

Like a fireside chat / mountain retreat with Esther & Don.

Learning with the best of the best.

Mark Biro - Business Consultant

Nationwide

A very intense two days, from which you will come away with new tools & insights you can apply in the real world to coach beyond the team.

Em Campbell-Pretty - Partner

Context Matters

Coaching Beyond the Team was amazing! Esther and Don gave real experiences and tools that are immediately relevant and valuable.

Kristen Belcher - Release Train Engineer

Vertafore

The workshop will introduce a bunch of useful tools when you are in the position of implementing a change in an org.

Jim Petersson - Head of Dev

SBAB

A hands-on workshop with brilliant facilitators / teachers that gives you insight and courage about how to approach your challenges.

Jennie Mårtensson - Business Developer

Lantmȁteriet

Prepare yourself

Learn how to prepare yourself to make changes to a system effectively.

Rob Reed - ScrumMaster

American Electric Power

It is very practical – not much theory. Low tempo with time for reflection (a good thing). It actually about coaching in the team and outside the team.

Martin Österberg - Agile Coach / Manager

IT-HUSET

Collaboratively improve a system

A series of ideas and techniques to collaboratively improve a system.

Nick Korbel - Development Manager

Pampered Chef

Highly interactive and engaging activities followed by thought-provking conversations.

Andrew Saeman - Senior Agile Consultant

Centare

Three days to explore how YOU can learn to become a better coach.

Philipp Schneider - Director eSolution Development

Sonova

Your Hosts

Ester Derby

I started my career as a programmer, and over the years I’ve worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant and manager. From all these perspectives, one thing became clear: our level of individual, team and company success was deeply impacted by our work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, I have spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success.

I’ve written over 100 articles, and co-authored two books–Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. I write about management, leadership, collaboration, organizations and change (or another topic I’m currently exploring).

I’m an original founder of the Scrum Alliance and the AYE Conference, and I have served two terms on the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance.

Don Gray –

My experience across a variety of industries, from small startups to Fortune 50 organizations, provides a solid platform for assisting clients through their transition to Agile development practices.I incorporate my study of communication, personality types, team styles, systems thinking, and human systems dynamics into my work and writing. You can find a number of my articles published at Better Software magazine and StickyMinds.com.

I frequently speak at local and regional conferences as well as Agile Development Practices and the Agile 201x Conferences.